[PATCH 1/3] Staging: hv: netvsc: Fix a bug in accounting transmit slots

From: K. Y. Srinivasan
Date: Mon Jun 06 2011 - 18:42:28 EST


The current code manipulates the available transmit slots without proper
locking; fix it.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kane <v-abkane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c | 16 +++++++++-------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
index 33cab9c..38ca2c2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt

#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@
struct net_device_context {
/* point back to our device context */
struct hv_device *device_ctx;
- unsigned long avail;
+ atomic_t avail;
struct delayed_work dwork;
};

@@ -118,8 +119,9 @@ static void netvsc_xmit_completion(void *context)

dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);

- net_device_ctx->avail += num_pages;
- if (net_device_ctx->avail >= PACKET_PAGES_HIWATER)
+ atomic_add(num_pages, &net_device_ctx->avail);
+ if (atomic_read(&net_device_ctx->avail) >=
+ PACKET_PAGES_HIWATER)
netif_wake_queue(net);
}
}
@@ -133,7 +135,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)

/* Add 1 for skb->data and additional one for RNDIS */
num_pages = skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags + 1 + 1;
- if (num_pages > net_device_ctx->avail)
+ if (num_pages > atomic_read(&net_device_ctx->avail))
return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;

/* Allocate a netvsc packet based on # of frags. */
@@ -185,8 +187,8 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
net->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
net->stats.tx_packets++;

- net_device_ctx->avail -= num_pages;
- if (net_device_ctx->avail < PACKET_PAGES_LOWATER)
+ atomic_sub(num_pages, &net_device_ctx->avail);
+ if (atomic_read(&net_device_ctx->avail) < PACKET_PAGES_LOWATER)
netif_stop_queue(net);
} else {
/* we are shutting down or bus overloaded, just drop packet */
@@ -345,7 +347,7 @@ static int netvsc_probe(struct hv_device *dev)

net_device_ctx = netdev_priv(net);
net_device_ctx->device_ctx = dev;
- net_device_ctx->avail = ring_size;
+ atomic_set(&net_device_ctx->avail, ring_size);
dev_set_drvdata(&dev->device, net);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&net_device_ctx->dwork, netvsc_send_garp);

--
1.7.4.1

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